Inspired by a post over at the Religion in American History blog highlighting a number of forthcoming titles in that field, I thought I would offer readers here a quick run-down of some US intellectual history-related books that are on our radar, and ask readers if they will add some more in the comments. It looks like a very promising crop of new titles, and I’m sure we’ll be discussing many of them here in the coming months. Follow me over the jump for a list:
Sorted by month of release:
- Udi Greenberg, The Weimar Century: German Emigres and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War (January, Princeton University Press)
- Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 (January, Princeton University Press)
- Barry Eichengreen, Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses and Misuses of History (January, Oxford University Press)
- Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist, The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball (January, University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Richard Wightman Fox, Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History (February, W. W. Norton)
- Anne M. Kornhauser, Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970 (February, University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Richard Rhodes, Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made (February, Simon and Schuster)
- Christian G. Appy, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (February, Viking)
- Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (February, Little, Brown and Co.)
- Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding Manifesto (February, University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Leah N. Gordon, From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America (March, University of Chicago Press)
- Erin A. Smith, What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America (March, UNC Press)
- Philip F. Gura, The Life of William Apess, Pequot (March, UNC Press)
- Ellen Berrey, The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice (April, University of Chicago Press)
- Mia Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, et al., eds, Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (April, UNC Press)
- Andrew Hartman, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (April, University of Chicago)
- Philipp Blomm, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1939 (April, Basic Books)
- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (April, Oxford University Press)
- Sarah Bridger, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (April, Harvard University Press)
- David Sehat, The Jefferson Rule: Why We Think the Founding Fathers Have All the Answers (May, Simon and Schuster)
- Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights (May, UNC Press)
- Kevin M. Schultz, Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties (June, W. W. Norton)
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If anyone is interested in reviewing any of these books for S-USIH in 2015 please let me know. These are important books in need of critical attention. Click on Review section of this site for more info on becoming a reviewer. Thank you.
Thanks for this list! My forthcoming book with OUP, Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago – which I also mentioned in the post over at RiAH – should be of interest to intellectual historians. Working people’s religious ideas are at the very center of my story.
My The Origins of American Religious Nationalism is coming out in March 2015 (OUP). It should be of interest to some S-USIH readers.